Conquer or Die
8th June 2010, 11:18
Written by an underground Communist during the National Socialist uprising, this book is apparently a bedrock of Von Mises astrology. The book argues that private corporations were nurtured for takeover forcibly by the German government mostly for war. It also says that this economy inevitably lead it to its destruction. I haven't read all of it, just the wikipedia and about a chapter, but I find it interesting that a communist text on appropriation turned into a rallying cry against socialism.
Besides inspiring the miraculous Ludwig Von, I also see the roots for the book "Hitler's Beneficiaries" which was another text that stupidly focused on the "socialism" of National Socialism. While "The Vampire Economy" explicitly draws a difference between socialism and national socialism, most people wouldn't draw such a line because of the association of socialism with totalitarian state governments and appropriation.
Similarly, the book "Wages of Destruction" by Adam Tooze also made the argument that this Nazi economy inevitably lead to its destruction and its war mongering. Tooze draws liberal democratic conclusions (IE Supply Side Nonsense) but this was expounded on much earlier by the Marxist Timothy W. Mason who committed suicide in 1990 and warned that Thatcher was the harbringer of fascism.
I really wish I could get some insight into these books. I see several conclusions drawn from these linkages.
1. Materialist history and historic determinism has obliterated every other potential way of studying history. The primacy of materialism is unmatched and idealist assertions can be completely disregarded for future study of history and economy.
2. Politics, as in political organization, is superior to the primacy of economics. It is the nature of the political system that determines survivability of its contents rather than its economic codification. Liberalism has trumped Republicanism, Democracy, and Authoritarianism.
3. Exploitation is a component of social violence that is unrelated to the presence of free or state economies. Exploitation is the net of surplus. This is done through theft consciously or unconsciously. The presence of a state or any authority apparatus can therefore be gauged by its relation to theft. Theft is declared ownership and not earned ownership.
I mean, simple things really that are evident to everybody. I'm interested in this link between the liberal capitalist conception of history grounded in Marxist theory. I'm wondering if I'm behind the rest of the movement in catching up to this basic understanding of the current state of progressivism.
Besides inspiring the miraculous Ludwig Von, I also see the roots for the book "Hitler's Beneficiaries" which was another text that stupidly focused on the "socialism" of National Socialism. While "The Vampire Economy" explicitly draws a difference between socialism and national socialism, most people wouldn't draw such a line because of the association of socialism with totalitarian state governments and appropriation.
Similarly, the book "Wages of Destruction" by Adam Tooze also made the argument that this Nazi economy inevitably lead to its destruction and its war mongering. Tooze draws liberal democratic conclusions (IE Supply Side Nonsense) but this was expounded on much earlier by the Marxist Timothy W. Mason who committed suicide in 1990 and warned that Thatcher was the harbringer of fascism.
I really wish I could get some insight into these books. I see several conclusions drawn from these linkages.
1. Materialist history and historic determinism has obliterated every other potential way of studying history. The primacy of materialism is unmatched and idealist assertions can be completely disregarded for future study of history and economy.
2. Politics, as in political organization, is superior to the primacy of economics. It is the nature of the political system that determines survivability of its contents rather than its economic codification. Liberalism has trumped Republicanism, Democracy, and Authoritarianism.
3. Exploitation is a component of social violence that is unrelated to the presence of free or state economies. Exploitation is the net of surplus. This is done through theft consciously or unconsciously. The presence of a state or any authority apparatus can therefore be gauged by its relation to theft. Theft is declared ownership and not earned ownership.
I mean, simple things really that are evident to everybody. I'm interested in this link between the liberal capitalist conception of history grounded in Marxist theory. I'm wondering if I'm behind the rest of the movement in catching up to this basic understanding of the current state of progressivism.